The internship came about after Hotz expressed support for Musk’s “extremely hardcore” ultimatum to Twitter employees, demanding they work “long hours at high intensity” or else leave the company. Hotz said that “this is the attitude that builds incredible thingsand that he would be willing to do an internship with the company. “Sure, let’s talk,” was Musk’s response.
Comma.ai strives to build driver assistance technology that can be retrofitted to existing cars, unlike Tesla vehicles that come with built-in technology. But early claims of Hotz’s driver assistance technology in a function Bloomberg asked one severe rebuke from Tesla, who said it was “extremely unlikely that a single person or even a small company lacking extensive technical validation capability will be able to produce an autonomous drive system that can be deployed in production vehicles.” Comma.ai is currently selling a $1,999 driver assistance developer pack that claims to be compatible with over 200 vehicles, and is working to make it a consumer product. TechCrunch notes.
At one point, Tesla called his claims “extremely unlikely”
In the same 2015 Bloomberg feature Hotz said he had talked about working at Tesla, but the plans fell through as Musk kept changing the terms of their deal. “I appreciate the offer,” Hotz told Musk, “but like I said, I’m not looking for a job. I’ll ping you if I crush Mobileye.” At the time, Mobileye was the company that provided some of the technology Tesla used in its Autopilot system, before the two separated ways in 2016.
George Hotz wastes no time working out solutions for Twitter’s search function. In a tweetHotz said these include making it easier to find the search’s advanced modifiers, as well as making the feature less dependent on typing the exact text you want to find.
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